{"product_id":"gravity-siren","title":"Gravity Siren","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Monroe Lawrence\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Beautiful Days Press (2026)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eGravity Siren\u003c\/em\u003e situates its speaker in the calendars of colonial and ecological history. Plangent with affect and cringe yet at once restrained and prosodic, the poems exhibit frustration and debasement, elation and freedom, treating family and environment by turns. \u003cem\u003eGravity Siren\u003c\/em\u003e moves from “playing seriously on the roof” in the shadows of empire, fire, murder, and weather to the language of art history and the damp theaters of the Pacific Northwest, registering the pressures and priorities of wielding language under the sign of crisis. For a world in which “the moose stumbles from the river ripping its own hide from itself” and a moth “struggles past snow,” \u003cem\u003eGravity Siren\u003c\/em\u003e attempts to ask, “What else is there but expressing to others what they have meant to you?”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beautiful Days Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44111909519459,"sku":"9798991646833","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/8655\/1139\/files\/gravitysiren.jpg?v=1775942256","url":"https:\/\/woodlandpatternbookcenter.com\/products\/gravity-siren","provider":"Woodland Pattern","version":"1.0","type":"link"}